2023-09-14 10:32:02
The former president of the Government José María Aznar reiterated this Thursday in his speech last Tuesday in which he assimilated ETA terrorism with the current Catalan independence movement, and appealed to the so-called Spirit of Ermua and the citizen mobilization against the amnesty negotiated by PSOE and Add with Junts and ERC. “I said what I had to say,” he said in an interview at Cope. “In Spain we have reached a breaking point. An amnesty is being negotiated and self-determination consultations are being held,” said the current president of the Faes foundation, a businessman and employee of tycoons.
Aznar equates the rejection of the amnesty with “Enough!” against ETA and the Government accuses him of being a “coup plotter”
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“It is not a question of legality,” Aznar stated about the hypothetical law that the progressive bloc wants to implement to try to close the territorial conflict in Catalonia and for the pro-independence deputies to support the investiture of Pedro Sánchez. “The amnesty is outside the Constitution, it is expressly excluded from the Constitution,” he added.
According to Aznar, the amnesty is intended to be used “not only to exonerate and cleanse coup plotters, people who were tried and convicted for carrying out a coup d’état or who are fugitives for having carried out a coup d’état.” [una afirmación falsa, porque fueron condenados por sedición, no por rebelión]but rather “they want to end the roots of the Spanish constitutional system, which already granted an amnesty in 1977 and was one of the fundamental bases of the Transition.”
“It is an act against the Transition, the Constitution and against the foundations of Spain,” said Aznar, who has maintained that the PP is “the only constituent party” that remains, despite the fact that the Popular Alliance of Manuel Fraga was divided when it came to voting on the Constitution, both in the Congress and the Senate and before the referendum.
Aznar has assured that the amnesty would be a “destructive element of the constitutional system” and has appealed to “citizen responsibility” at a “critical moment”, since he sees Spain in “existential risk”.
A long Sánchez government
The former president has also replicated the words of the acting Government spokesperson, Isabel Rodríguez, who last Tuesday called Aznar’s words in the inauguration speech of the ‘Campus Faes’, a conference organized by his foundation in the who appealed to “Enough!”
Rodríguez was asked about some words that Aznar never uttered (“national rebellion”). And the spokesperson responded to that approach. This Thursday, the former president considered the reaction of the Executive as typical of an “autocratic” regime, a different way of saying “dictatorship.”
“They are autocratic reactions, typical of an autocracy, which considers that anyone who does not agree with those in the Government is anti-Spanish, fascist or coup plotter,” he assured, to regret that words are cited that he did not really have. used to “divert attention” from what is important, which is the possibility of the coalition government being reissued with Sánchez at the head.
In this sense, Aznar has ruled out the possibility of an electoral repetition, which Feijóo’s strategists do suspect. “I consider that scenario unlikely,” he said. Furthermore, the former leader of the PP does not share the majority thesis in the national leadership of his party that this hypothetical Executive, supported by EH Bildu, ERC and Junts, would be very unstable and would not last long. “Sánchez is not a captive of the separatists, he is an accomplice,” he stated. “He has chosen them,” he said, to consider as an “immense coalition of losers” that majority that already prevailed in the vote to elect Francina Armengol as president of Congress.
Aznar has defended that, if Sánchez obtains the investiture, the situation “does not have to be ungovernable.” “Everyone who forms the coalition has an interest in the coalition lasting. Your goal is to be. Once the coalition is completed, the objective is to pay: the consultations and the amnesty. And paid that price, there is no political project. The goal is to be there,” he stated.
The former president has also shown his willingness to be part of the PP’s act against this hypothetical amnesty, called even before the predictably failed investiture of its own leader, Alberto Núñez Feijóo. “I don’t know what has been called,” he said first, to conclude that he will be “wherever the PP asks” against the PSOE negotiations.
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